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Thursday, October 26, 2017

CAIR: The Walking Dead’s New Showrunner?

American TV and Movie
producers allow an inimical “civil rights” organization to “guide” them to the “right”
way to portray Islam and Muslim characters, especially in a popular series with
an enormous fan base. CAIR would’ve been clueless and negligent if it didn’t
realize that TWD was a hit, and contrive a way to exploit it to spread the
acceptance of Islam. The Walking
Dead may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but the long-running series has a
vast audience, most of whom know diddly about Islam, so it would be safe for CAIR
to persuade the series’ producers and writers to insinuate Dawah disguised as
mundane, ordinary dialogue. Dawah is the proselytizing of Islam as a “benign”
religion that means non-Muslims no harm. Dawah is practiced on
street corners, in jails, on the Internet, and in “entertainment.” It’s a “religion
of peace,” you see, has never harmed a fly. Just uncounted thousands who did not submit to Islam.

Islam has meant harm to non-Muslims
since the seventh century. It’s a matter of record.

I am not a horror movie fan. But
TWD caught my attention in its first season when it presented some outstanding
characters and followed their development, creating some memorable heroes and
heroines. My best girl is Carol
Peletier, played by Melissa McBride, who grew over the numerous episodes from
being a dishrag abused by her husband (who perishes fairly early in the season,
a victim of “walkers” or zombies) to being a formidable and resourceful fighter
and “second lieutenant” to Rick
Grimes, the nominal leader of a group of survivors of the zombie apocalypse.
Carol’s back story is too long and complicated to include here, but I fell for
her and put one of her images on my desktop.

Carol:
Formidable and Resourceful

I have watched the entire series, but canceled
my subscription to the show via AMC when, out
of the blue, it introduced Islam in a big way, by way of a starving Muslim one
of the minor characters finds in a ruined gas station. The Muslim repeats
several terms that are exclusively Islamic, including a quotation from the Koran:
“May
mercy prevail over my wrath.” Carl, Rick Grimes’s son, was going to spare
the Muslim
(neither he nor his father knows squat about Islam). But in the course of the Season 8 premiere
Rick Grimes, as in the past, repeats his promise that he will kill
the super villain, Negan, leader of a gang of looters and killers, is shown
in an amorphous time jump, repeating the “mercy” quotation. This undercuts his
character, indicating a credible possibility that he will not keep
his promise to kill Negan.
In fact, it undercuts the whole series.

A friend asked me whether or
not Islam and Muslims will be portrayed as “bad” in the series. I answered:

“No, it won't be allowed. You haven't watched
the series, I have. There were no Muslim walkers or zombies, in any episode,
just herds of mostly white ones, with a sprinkling of blacks and Asians. No Muslimas
in hijabs, abayas, or burkas or Muslim men wearing kufis or caps, attacking the
living, as they do in real life. The villains were all white, including the
cannibals who ran the Terminus. TWD will never portray evil Muslims. It made
its commitment to Islam through having a character recite from the Koran at the
opening of Season 8: "May my mercy prevail over my wrath." This is
Dawah, or proselytizing Islam under the radar of dialogue.”

It is doubtful that the
producers and writers of TWD will ever admit that they were influenced by CAIR
to adulterate the series with Islamic “wisdom.” The “benign” introduction of Islam
in the series poisoned its appeal to me. It is not a matter of coincidence. The
timing is too perfect. CAIR goes to bat (Negan style) for all sorts of Muslim complaints
and causes from getting any mention of Islam scrubbed from FBI
training documents to getting the study
of Islam in public schools to loudly criticizing how Muslims are portrayed
in Movies and TV and applying a quantum of arm-twisting.

If the producers and writers
of TWD were not influenced or cajoled into shilling for Islam, CAIR must be pleased
as punch. It didn’t need to lift a finger. American producers and writers have
been so submissive and Sharia minded.

Scott Gimple was interviewed
by Entertainment
and asked about the Koran quotation:

You end up having
Rick do a callback to that guy from earlier and quoting from Islam with “My
mercy prevails over my wrath.” What does having Rick say that at the end
signify?Oh God, no! I can’t say that because
that’s the story. Therein lies the tale.

But the question
obviously the viewer is going to ask after seeing that is: Does that signify
that Rick is ultimately going to offer mercy to Negan as opposed to wrath? I
mean, you are asking the audience to ask that question, right?Well, I certainly went into it
thinking that the audience might ask that question. I will say that especially
at the start of a season, you do want the audience asking questions. You do
want them thinking about what comes next. I really think there shouldn’t be an
answer until that part of the story that answers it, but I admire your pluck.

Well, it’s
interesting that you’re putting the tease in there. You’re allowing us, by
putting that in there, to ask that question and to map out the possibilities.I want you to. We want you to. All of
us want you to, because in examining that question, not only might you find
answers to the story, sure, but you might be thinking about questions about
your own life, or the world, or anything. We’re trying to engage you that way.
I know that my favorite stuff engaged me that way. I know I’m still thinking
about the ending to Time Bandits and trying to figure it out.

What it signifies is that it’s
likely that Rick will betray many of his friends, who lost husbands and lovers
to Negan’s baseball bat, and to just plain, naked whimsical cruelty sans the bat, who were counting on Rick
ending Negan once and for all. Countless fans are depending on that, too. I think
they will all be sorely disappointed. The fix is in.

Gimple is a tool, one of those who make up the majority of the entertainment industry, and his slippery evasion of the question here shouldn't fool anyone. Of course the intent of the blatant insertion of Muslim propaganda into The Walking Dead, amounting to open Islamic "Dawah", or proselytizing, is significant. TWD has a fan base of millions, who are now hearing quotes from the "Koran" -- though some are actually from the Hadith, but how many of those viewers will know the difference or the significance? -- as some kind of moral guidance a la Morgan's pacifist Eastern religious preachings, but far more dangerous. These millions of viewers will now be subjected to "Islam as a Religion of Peace" nonsense every Sunday night for weeks. The storyline will be manipulated to suggest that the rosy future "Old Rick" envisions is all the result of following the precepts of Allah. One can only hope that enough viewers will be so revolted if the repugnant, evil, nihilist brute Negan is pardoned (or merely incarcerated instead of executed as he deserves) as a result that it will turn them away from anything having to do with Islam forever.

Edward Cline, American Novelist

Edward Cline was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1946. After graduating from high school (in which he learned nothing of value) and a stint in the Air Force, he pursued his ambition to become a novelist. His first detective novel, First Prize, was published in 1988 by Mysterious Press/Warner Books, and his first suspense novel, Whisper the Guns, was published in 1992 by The Atlantean Press. First Prize was republished in 2009 by Perfect Crime. The Sparrowhawk series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period has garnered critical acclaim (but not yet from the literary establishment) and universal appreciation from the reading public, including parents, teachers, students, scholars, and adult readers who believe that American history has been abandoned or is misrepresented by a government-dominated educational establishment. He is dedicated to Objectivism, Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason in all matters.